Tutorial: How to Use CoinDesk’s Crypto-Economics Explorer

Officially launched in beta this week, the CoinDesk Crypto-Economics Explorer (CEX) is the most recent device in our arsenal of knowledge merchandise, one which we consider is our most progressive and forward-looking to date.

Ambitious in scope, we all know our device takes a little bit of getting used to.

Unlike our Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), probably the most extensively cited indicator of the worth of bitcoin, the CEX is a departure in that it brings collectively a wider vary of knowledge factors – together with social, community and developer knowledge – in an try to measure the complete scope of a crypto asset market.

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With the CEX, we consider we’ve taken step one down a path that gives the identical visible energy of a standard worth chart, whereas conveying extra knowledge concerning the well being and maturity of a crypto asset market.

In brief, it’s greatest regarded as a software, one we hope to refine because the research of crypto-economics continues around the globe.

Over the approaching months and years, we’re hoping to proceed constructing, including new knowledge factors and crypto belongings, till we will confidently say our product is in a position to measure the complete scope of a crypto asset market.

We hope this video will assist introduce you to our imaginative and prescient for a extra full crypto knowledge software and encourage you to become involved in testing and refining our methodologies.

In this video, you’ll study:

How to examine crypto asset networks utilizing the CEX

How to use every function of the CEX, together with our zoom function, calendar and knowledge desk

The 6 distinctive benchmarks that comprise the CEX visualizer

The particular methodologies we’re utilizing as a stepping stone in refining our device.